BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana walloped Marian 107-46 in an exhibition on Friday. It was a solid showing for the Hoosiers and first-year coach Darian DeVries.

Here's what DeVries, freshman forward Trent Sisley and Florida transfer Sam Alexis had to say after the win.

DARIAN DEVRIES

Q. Just the way you all played, you played fast, hit a lot of 3s, had I think 27 assists. How much of that brand of ball is what you hoped for offensively?

DARIAN DEVRIES: I was really happy tonight. It's the way we've been practicing. You just never know when you get on game night whether that will continue, that unselfishness, the ball movement. I thought the guys did a great job really all night moving the ball, sharing the ball, take what the defense gave us.

And we have a lot of guys that can shoot it. I thought we had great distribution of 3s as well. So offensively I was excited. The assists, I think it was 19 at the half to 24 made field goals, something like that. That's a team that's sharing the ball.

Q. Feels like we ask you about him a lot, I think at one point Trent was 8-for-8 from the floor, finishes with 23 points. How do you see him, I guess, building on these performances, whether it's practices in the summer, what he was doing in Puerto Rico, now, kind of carrying it into the fall? Especially as a freshman, how do you see him stack those performances, that growth, one on top of the other?

DARIAN DEVRIES: I love what Trent's doing. He's really fitting in well. He works hard at it. He puts a lot of time into it. Spent a ton of time on his shot this summer. And catch-and-shoots and shooting on the move a little bit, continuing to be one of our better cutters that we have as well.

And then he's a good rebounder. So I'm really excited about the things he's doing. And he continues to grow and get better every day.

He's also in a role where he can kind of fit in and have a little bit of the pressure taken off by some of the seniors. He can come in just play and be relaxed and do his thing. But he had a great night tonight. And we're looking forward to seeing what he'll continue to grow into.

Q. Tucker scored at all three levels tonight -- five 3s out of seven shots. What did you like out of him after a slow start in Puerto Rico tonight?

DARIAN DEVRIES: I thought he did a good job kind of just playing. And that's what I think he has -- one of his better qualities, I think, is just his feel and his IQ and his ability to kind of play off defenses.

We rely on a lot with some of his play making as well, coming off of ball screens and things. And also being able to utilize him on the move. I thought he had a nice, solid floor game tonight.

Q. Tucker, has he always been a vocal leader? Is he embracing more now? The last two years, kind of been in that role guys, never had guys who played with you; he's the only one. Has he embraced that, and what kind of growth have you seen him be a leader on the floor?

DARIAN DEVRIES: He's always been a really good leader. As he's gotten older he's become more vocal with it as well. For this group, especially when everybody's new, and he's the one guy that understands everything we're running, whether it's drills or plays or whatever.

So really challenged him to kind of be that guy because he's got to be the one who tells people, him and Conor Enright as well. His vocal leadership has really gotten stronger and stronger over the years.

Q. One of the things Trent told me over the summer was he wanted to learn from Tucker, that he looked at Tucker's game and said I want a lot of that in my game. How much of that is happening, and how much can that help Trent's overall development?

DARIAN DEVRIES: I think it's always great when you get an incoming freshman that has a guy that can work off of one another, teach each other a little bit the tricks of the game, if you will, just how to best get yourself open, cutting, that type of stuff.

Trent is one of those guys that absorb learning and teaching and coaching too. That's why his upside is really good because he cares. It's important to him, and he works at it.

Q. Sam obviously got a double-double tonight. Just your thoughts on him what he can bring this season?

DARIAN DEVRIES: Sam gives us that physicality. And we don't have a lot of big, girthy guys, especially on the interior. He's one of the guys that does bring some of that physical presence, some of that shot blocking.

I like the way we can utilize both of them, either together or separately. They kind of give a different kind of 1-2 punch with him and Reed. We can play them together, play them separate. I like Sam's abilities. We can throw it in there and he can get a basket every now and again.

Q. More on Trent, when we were here a few weeks he said you called him basically on your first night on the job, trying to get him to keep his commitment here. What was about it about him that you still wanted to coach and be around it, and what do you remember about that phone call?

DARIAN DEVRIES: I remember he was one of the very first calls right away that night. But just felt like it was someone, hey, it's a local kid. He wants to be at Indiana, it's important to him and he's a good player.

That makes a lot of sense to me. Let's keep that one. And I know he was excited about it. We were certainly excited about it. It's great to have him.

Q. You talked about the ball movement your team showed before. I think 27 assists on 39 made field goals tonight and only 10 turnovers. How pleased are you with the way your team has gelled in that way on the court so far early on?

DARIAN DEVRIES: Yeah, it's been really good. And again the challenges will continue to grow as we play more and more games. But even the other day in practice, we had 31 assists and three turnovers. I've never had that. That's in 5-on-5 play. But I've never had that as a coach.

So some of that is just as we begin to see longer and bigger bodies and more athleticism, we're going to have to make some adjustments to that.

But these guys really understand how to play. We talk about playing off of two feet, making sure that you can still be aggressive, but let's make the right plays at the end of the night. I like how these guys have really adapted to the way we want them to play offense.

Q. When you get up 20, 30 points like tonight against an overmatched team, how hard is it to keep the team focused on executing and going kind of through the process of getting better, even though it's a blow out and you'll probably win easily?

DARIAN DEVRIES: Exhibition games are especially are really challenging we know it's not counting for anything. We're just working on ourselves. That was a big thing leading up to the game and every timeout is just focused on us, let's make sure that we continue to be sound defensively.

Sometimes you can get a little bit too aggressive when you have the ability to go out and maybe make plays and stuff. We wanted our defense to stay sound behind the ball. Get (indiscernible) the ball, make sure we're good behind it, that we're giving our guys protection, like we work on, and not get away from all our principles and things.

A lot of that came from being in Puerto Rico. We learned a lot kind of some of the mistakes we made defensively when we were there. And we were able to really clean a lot of that stuff up because of that opportunity.

TRENT SISLEY AND SAM ALEXIS

Q. Trent, for you, we saw you be MVP at Montverde last year, saw you shoot well. Why did it translate so well, your first exhibition game in Assembly Hall in front of fans and the whole deal?

TRENT SISLEY: Yeah, I just think the work I put in, like that move, like you said, to Montverde was good for me. And just carrying it over here, just working every day as hard as I can. It's obviously a place I want to be. I think it's special to be here and play.

Q. In terms of like what you have seen in practice, momentum kind of carrying over to a game, were you interested to see how it all looked against a different team? What were your thoughts coming in today and how it all looked?

SAM ALEXIS: Our thoughts was just come in play hard no matter who we play tonight. We was just excited to play someone besides us. So we just came in and attacked the game.

Q. Obviously you had the summer and then the games in Puerto Rico. Were there moments tonight for either of you where you thought, that's something we built on? From what we did in the summer, that's progress we've made even since August.

TRENT SISLEY: Yeah, I just think being locked in, more detail defensively, more physical, especially for me being more physical getting through ball screens, stuff like that, being in the right spots. I think that showed tonight.

Q. Just the way you all shot it, how much of that is how it's looked in practice? And just how good can you all be out there launching 3s?

SAM ALEXIS: I feel like we shoot it pretty well in practice, even better than we did tonight. So you're all going to keep seeing us keep making shots.

Q. Trent, how have some of the injuries of the couple of the older guys on the team almost forced you to grow up and get in this larger role early in the season?

TRENT SISLEY: Like you said, a lot of injuries. We have a lot of people hurt right now. It's everyone stepping up, playing different roles in practice. Everyone is learning new spots. I think for me just getting that experience early has been good for me.

Q. Trent, you guys shot 30 3s tonight against an outmatched opponent. Coming into it, what's kind of like the mindset of shot selection even against a team you overpower?

TRENT SISLEY: Yeah, I think we work in practice a lot to get, like you said we shot a lot of 3s, but I think we get good 3s. That just comes off of paint touches, coach's offense, a lot of motion, stuff like that. We shoot them well in practice, so that translates in games.

Q. Sam, for a team that has all these new pieces coming together for the first time this season, how big is it on a group like that to have Tucker out there who kind of holds everything together and can step up and just kind of take over games for stretches?

SAM ALEXIS: It's great to have a guy like Tucker. He's been playing in this offense for a long time. He's the guy -- he's a great leader on and off the court.